Stockard Channing, Rory Keenan, Gemma Reeves, et al. Set for Dublin Importance of Being Earnest

Full casting has been announced for Rough Magic Theatre’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, to play the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, June 2-19. Lynne Parker will direct.

The production stars the previously reported Tony Award winner Stockard Channing as Lady Bracknell, with the cast also including Rory Keenan as John (Jack / Ernest) Worthing, Rory Nolan as Algernon Moncrieff, Aoife Duffin as Gwendolyn Fairfax and Gemma Reeves as Cecily Cardew, along with Peter Daly as Merriman, Darragh Kelly as the Rev. Canon Chasuble, Eleanor Methven as Miss Prism, and Arthur Riordan as Lane.

Channing won a Tony Award for Joe Egg, and received additional Tony nominations for her performances in The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, The Lion in Winter, and Pal Joey. She won Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the the film version of Six Degrees of Separation.

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